Bisonte Palace Hotel Buenos Aires

... with each other and the moves are so quick that you can just make out two pairs of legs flying everywhere. We had a really good night and finished it off at a night club. Well, we thought it was a night club but when we paid to get in it was a tranvesite doing a comedy show. The music didn´t start until 2 in the morning but everything happens a lot later in Buenos Aires.

After a bit of a slow morning with sore heads we headed out to Recoletta which is an up-market suburb ...

... and I got nauseous towards the end but otherwise we were fine, although no-one slept for long. Flying over what I think was Chile was absolutely amazing, these snow-capped mountains in absolutely un-touched areas, and then arid hills with incredibly long, straight roads going from no-where to no-where.

We arrived at the airport and immediately had a chance to practise our Spanish chatting to Aerolineas Argentinas about getting ...

... practicing more Spanish and researching our Mexican leg of our trip. I am a little concerned about what I have read about some of the potential hazards in Mexico and I am taking additional precautions for safety.

Jodys Story
Today we had another Spanish Lesson. It was very fun. After that we stayed at the school for a while and did some homework. After that we had some lunch at a ...

... weekends. It was a lovely sunny Sunday winters day. It was the perfect weather, just as it had been when I arrived, crisp but warm in the sunshine. We eventually found a place to park and went to a lovely Parilla called La Terrase and sat upstairs and outside. Fran ordered and we had some morcillas for starters – which were like a smooth version of black pudding, and some…wait for it…cow intestines! I didn’t know this until I was biting into it. Small ...

... club was closed and the fare was already at 36 pesos, so then we decided to head back to Museum which was a lot closer to where we originally were...I was really hoping that the taxi driver was not screwing around with us because I was ****** that we were wasting time and that we were definitely wasting too much money on the ride. Deep down i think the driver knew it was closed because on our way to Pacha he was offering to drive us to Mar De Plata for 2 ...

Seemingly higher in the social food chain, there are those that wish to prey on us revelling vampires. I´m talking about the muggers, robbers, vandals and pick pockets that slyly disturb the otherwise happy traveller´s existence and, with great cowardice, remove both possessions and faith from the unsuspecting.

Rio, for example, conveyed a raw feeling of edginess to Sheffield Pete and I even before the perception sadly became a stark reality. Far from being careless, we never ...

... them (morbidly fascinating and a bit creepy, couldn´t take my eyes off them cos I was just waiting for one of the lids to start creeping open....). Anyway, after wandering about for ages (probably in circles, it was hard to tell there were so many ´streets´in the place) an old man who worked there approached us and said he´d show us the way to Evita´s grave. Glad he did because I don´t think we´d have found it otherwise (its the main pull for tourists for obvious reasons ...

... backpacking, most travelers are alone. A few are traveling as a couple. A small number are traveling in a small group of 4. This allows most people to be open talkative social and interesting. Commonly in the hostel many people are on a RTW (Round the World) ticket. In the hostel friends are made easily. You may share a meal in the hostel or at a restaurant. If going out for exploration of the ...

... it looked good and tasted better!


The next day we headed to one of the two most visited city sites, the Recolata Cemetery. We were expecting a nice, quite garden-like place with trees and flowers - your basic cemetery only much bigger. Boy, were we wrong! You know those above-ground "tombs" that are all cement and have a big locked door on them? This cemetery was nothing but those. Only, they are MUCH bigger. Almost all of them ...

Dále- as they say in Argentina- mum has been mothering me to write this blog for a couple of days to write this, so i thought i would get it out of the way! Before i start, for the record, the week has not been all doom and gloom and has included MANY cultural observations! It will be a week tomorrow since Tilly left me- and i´m still dearly missing her presence! Things have been anything but smooth sailing with my homestay the last week. For starters, i ...